Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-11
CRIMES AND

William E. English, son of Hon. William
English, of Indiana, Democratic candidate for
Vice President in 1850, was arrested on board
the steamer Erturia, just before it vas time
for her to sail for Europe on the Goth of Feb
ruary. The order of arrest was sued out of
the Supreme Court by Mrs. Lucy A. Case,
formerly of Indianapolis, the home of the
young man. She charges him with criminal
assault and refusal to fulfill a promise of mar
riage. She sues for s2s5, COO damages. Eng
lish was released on bail, which was furnished
by DIR. Norvin Green, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, andJ. II. Rodgers,
proprietor of the Coleman House.
AT New York the steamer Lone Star, of
the Morgan line, was damaged to the extent of
500, 600 by fire on the 2Sth. The fire COM
municated to the pier, III which was stored
and pier was about 100000 In all S,640
bales were destroyed, worth 100000. Six
lighters in all were fired and all were practi-
cally destroyed before the flames were cx-
tinguished. The pier occupied by the Nor
gan line was owned blythe city. 1t was totally
destroyed. Loss, $4,000. The estimated to-
tai loss is about s32o,0O0.
"A horrible murder occurred in Roane
County, Tenn, on the evening of the 2:5th.
A man named Newman and a 15-year-old girl
named Weaver while going in q wagon from
Kingston to lockwood were fred on by q man
named Epps, and both were killed.
Tho mystery concerning the recent ship
ment of a mutilated corpse in a box to Pitts
burg has been cleared up by q young physi-
clan named John Osborn, of Sutterville, Pa,
calling at the Baltimore and Ohio express
Office for the box. He was escorted to the
Mayors Office, where he made o statement un-
der oath that the body found in the box was
that of a negro who died at the Cincinnati Hos
pital, and had been sent after death to the
Eclectic College as q medical subject After
dissection it was given into the hands of Os-
born, who shipped it home to articulate the
skeleton. The doctor had not heard of the
mystery and excitement the box had occa-
stoned, and when he was told that he would
have to go before the coroner he was badly
frightened.
Tho river bank at Leota, Miss, suddenly
commenced caVlng, anu With such rapid head
way that a warehouse and office at the land
ing, with all its contents, went into the river,
also q blacksmith shop. There was quite a
large amount of freight in the warehouse,
consisting of corn, hay and pork and other
sundry merchandise.
Robert c. Brachrogel, alias Robert G..
Matthews, who claimed to be the owner of
several handsome cabs in Chicago, has been
arrested for the forgery of a number of checks
on the Second Ward Savings bank of Milwau-
kee, a few of which he disposed of to local
gambling house.
The %ship-keeper of a large schooner at
Cheboygan, Mich, has been arrested for the
stealing of 100 tons of the %schooner's cargo OF
coal, which he had disposed of abouttown and
squandered the proceeds.
Boston Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes
Booth, has been declared insane at Topeka,
Kan, and sent to the insane asylum.
Judgment for $4,000 has been entered
against the bondsmen of Colonel W. H. Bolton,
the Chicago post-office defaulter, and his
property valued at $4,000, which Bolton sur
rendered, has been accepted by the court.